cm10lber Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Just curious as to what your average time is to paint an average size crankbait from start to finish.. I usually go down to my paint booth.. set there for an hr or so trying to decide what color and scheme to paint.. then I usually get the first 2 colors on and realize my idea wont work. Take that paint off..think a while longer.. finally start painting again. Once I do get one done my actual painting time is probably 90 minutes.. thats with correcting any scratches and putting the epoxy on, maybe even a bit longer.. IDK..seems like It takes me a long time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohawkman Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 10-20 minutes with clean up and color changes if I'm focused. Most of the time I'm not so it takes about a half hour. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohawkman Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 I don't sit and think what pattern I'm about to paint. I usually think about that the night before while I'm in bed...or during the day at work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRammit Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 3 beers for my primer to dry... And 2 beers between each coat of spray paint..... Ive never timed the whole process.... But im starting to think i need an air brush!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougarftd Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 I use lacquer and a heat gun...10-15 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW Lures Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 New paint scheme, This I can talk about. I decide the forage fish pattern that want to mimic well before painting. I write down the color layers that I think I want to do. This could be days before doing the painting. I write down the color layers and any details. I may change the process several times before I actually paint. Now if I change a idea during pairing I note that in the paint description. Rewrite the process after finishing and keep the notes. 30-45 mins. for this. Maybe up to an hour. Paint scheme that I'm happy with, about 25 mins. This is using two brushes. This does not include clear coating, nor does it include sealing, just color painting. I have some to do in the near future and will post them in the gallery, of my finish products as I complete them. I always have a picture of the bait fish in front of me. This is when I do plastic blanks. Wooden ones, I can't tell you yet. I've been designing for the last two months. Between normal life's demands. Cheers; Dale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW Lures Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Stencils is not included either. Wooden blanks are not exactly the same, so I'm thinking about how I can use them with wooden blanks. Dale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 It all depends on the materials I use, and the application methods I've developed for those materials. If it's a pattern I've painted before, and a clear plastic crank, 20-30 minutes for three colors, including cleanup, before it's ready to top coat. If it's a new pattern that I'm kind of designing as I go, it can take an hour or more. That's all with water-based air brush paints. With nail polish, it takes longer, if I'm doing multiple coats or colors, because each coat has to really set before the next, or I get mixing of colors. If I'm using Glonation paint over a clear plastic crank, it takes 2 hours for me to really be sure the paint is dry, using a hair dryer repeatedly, and then I coat it with nail polish, and leave that to dry overnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrybait Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 I generally figure I paint a normal pattern plastic crankbait start to finish in 1-1/2 hrs. Say a craw pattern, steel wool cleaning up the blank, taping, painting, clear coating. But I also figure that I can do 6-8 of them with the same pattern in 2 hrs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwfflipper Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 It usually takes me up to 3-4 hours to paint a pattern as I clear coat after every layer of paint 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diemai Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 I have always wondered about that question , too , ...but right now I'm into making a video series of 7-8 parts about how to make a certain lure model from wood dowel to finished lure , ...since the clips are left uncut , I could later determine about the exact time being used , .....I'm eager to find out . Greetz , Dieter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aulrich Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 At this point I am just painting pre-mades so I typically don’t paint one lure at a time, I run a batch of 8 which covers my “normal” patterns and I do my best to minimize paint changes. On small lures the process is pretty quick but the time can extend quite a bit with bigger lures. Though depending on my mood I’ll mount up a batch the night before and give them a rattle can white primer base coat. That tends to speed thing up. IIRC I have had normal batches as quick as 60 min and as long as 3-4 hours to do a batch of my big lures . But my normals are basic 3 colors , perch and a couple fire tiger variants, so very basic. Anything with spots or if I am copying a complicated bait I just stop looking at the time. Some of my pearl paints take a bunch of very thin coats to look right and that really slows me down. For me mounting hooks seems to take a unreasonable amount of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
